Does this tv placement make sense?
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Does it make sense to have 2 dishwashers?
Comments (6)We sit down and eat a candlelit family dinner every weekday evening. We rarely stay at the table for more than 30 minutes but it's amazing family bonding time that everyone has come to count on. Total clean up for this everyday "holiday" dinner is about 7 minutes...all the prep gear gets loaded into dishwasher #1 even as dinner is in the frenzied making; all the dirty table dishes are tossed into dishwasher #2 immediately thereafter. We have 2 Kitchenaids with multi adjusting racks so can fit in just about any pot, cookie sheet, or mixing bowl we own, even the lobster pot (things that don't fit, we've thrown away LOL). We scrape but do not clean or scrub anything by hand -- an excellent dishwasher should handle that with proper loading and proper cycle selection. Having the 2 dishwashers is a big time saver -- a big family time saver. BTW, we positioned the two dishwashers across and down from each other so there was one by each sink in our two cook kitchen. A tip: take a big box of your pots, pans, platters, bowls, spatulas, and odd shaped favorites over to the various appliance show room and try loading different dishwashers. You'll quickly see which machines are going to work for you and which not. Some people love dishwasher drawers but I tried loading my stuff in them and realized they would never work for me....See MoreDoes this make any sense?
Comments (11)Several years ago I had a similar problem with severe static on a shortwave radio that was there all the time. I took an AM transistor radio, tuned to a spot on the dial where there wasn't any station, and went around the house with the radio and tried to find out what was causing the interference. Nothing seemed to be causing it. I finally went out to the power pole and could still hear the static. I walked down the power line and after passing two houses down, the static disappeared. I went back and stood under the transformer serving that house and could hear the static again. I went up to the electric meter for that house and could hear the static. I talked to the neighbor and he let me come in to try and track it down. I was able to trace it to a defective door bell transformer in his basement. He had the transformer replaced and that fixed the problem. Even though there was a transformer on the pole in our back It turned out both of our houses were fed from the transformer in his back yard. If you have a small radio, you could try the same thing. Moving around the house with it, the static should become real loud when you get near what ever is causing the interference. If you don't have a battery operated radio, you could use a long extension cord to help you move around the house. Although the problem seems to be heat and time related, there's always a possibility the circuit beaker itself could be arcing....See MoreDoes this kitchen layout make sense?
Comments (15)You stated that the window at the bottom is to the floor and to change it would mess up the front elevation of the house. Given that constriction, I would do one of the following: 1) Swap Fridge and Ovens, place prep sink on the top side of the island. You would need to adjust the framing. Your primary prep space is the top side of the island - that's a long side, so will give you a lot of space. However, your prep is in the traffic path from FR to DR through the kitchen. 2) Move cleanup sink and DW to bottom end of island. Put Fridge at bottom of left wall, put prep sink somewhere on left wall, deepen left wall counters to 30". Your primary prep space is the left wall, with secondary on the island across from the prep sink, and neither are in a traffic path. 3) Move cleanup sink and DW to bottom end of island. Put Fridge at bottom of left wall, put prep sink on left side of island. Your primary prep space is the left, short side of the island, but I would still deepen left wall counters to 30" in order to have a secondary prep space. By the way, you will not be able to open a two-door or right-hinged single door fridge all the way if you put it against a wall like that. The wall blocks the door. You might be OK with that, but note you won't be able to pull out the drawers in the fridge for cleaning, or possibly even every day access. You need a single door fridge that is hinged in the opposite side from the wall if you want it placed like that, or the wall can only cover the fridge to the point it doesn't hinder the door swing (6" back, maybe?)...See MoreDoes this make any sense?
Comments (19)I really appreciate everyone's input. I wish I knew more, in order to question the things he says. He's pretty good at talking. About the ground for the antenna......where would I find that? We have an old rusty rotor on the antenna that doesn't work. The control box isn't plugged in. The coax comes from the antenna and goes into the attic from there. What should I ask him about that ground? I've heard that you can get these problems if someone has wired one of the outlets backwards. We added on to our house about 13 years ago and this started up around 8 years ago. I'll check all the outlets in the new addition with a tester. Also....he said that there's no way anything anywhere is causing a short. Is this true? I just don't know enough about electricity to even talk about it intelligently. Okay......I went out with my binoculars and took a good look at the setup. There's a wire from the dead rotor taped to the coax from the antenna and they go to a connector, which takes them into the attic. At that connector, there is a wire that comes down the house and into the ground. Does any of that sound weird? I have no idea if the ground wire is connected to anything, but it does go into the ground where our septic line exits the house. Can you extrude any relevant info from that? At least it might help me tell the TV guy what to look at. And I have the feeling that in the attic, the coax/rotor wire doesn't cross any other wires until it gets to the splitter and then the amplifier. The splitter and amplifier are about 10' apart, I think from what he said. Thanks for your help! Oh....about the VHS tape......it was a perfectly fine, clear video before I re-watched it yesterday, during the time when there was interference, and it had exactly the same interference on it as the TV had. I told the TV guy about this and he said we probably need better fittings on the cables in the back of the TV. My head is spinning. Reality is getting a little weird. I don't know much about alot of things, but I do seem to have the ability to know when someone is on the wrong track....See Morekbuescher
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